Signaling-less Data Transfer

Abstract

A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive configuration information comprising multiple configuration sets, receive a paging message from a base station, the paging message configured to initiate a mobile terminating connection between the UE and the base station, identify a first configuration set assigned to the UE from the multiple configuration sets based on the paging message and exchange data with a network using the first configuration set, wherein exchanging data with network comprises at least one of receiving downlink data and transmitting uplink data.

1 - 20 . (canceled) 
     
     
         21 . A method performed by a base station, comprising:
 transmitting a paging message to a user equipment (UE), the paging message configured to initiate a mobile terminating connection between the UE and the base station;   identifying a first configuration set assigned to the UE from multiple configuration sets; and   exchanging data with the UE using the first configuration set, wherein exchanging data with network comprises at least one of receiving downlink data and transmitting uplink data.   
     
     
         22 . The method of  claim 21 , further comprising:
 transmitting configuration information comprising the multiple configuration sets to the UE in a system information block (SIB).   
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 21 , further comprising:
 transmitting configuration information comprising the multiple configuration sets to the UE in a dedicated message.   
     
     
         24 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein the first configuration set is assigned to only the UE during the mobile terminating connection. 
     
     
         25 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein radio resources corresponding to the first configuration set are available for any radio activity when the mobile terminating connection utilizing these resources is not assigned to any UE. 
     
     
         26 . The method of  claim 21 , further comprising:
 receiving a paging request from a core network based on previously being a serving cell for the UE.   
     
     
         27 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein the UE transmitted an indication of a UE stationary mode to the core network via a previous connection between the UE and the base station. 
     
     
         28 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein a data payload structure for the mobile terminating connection comprises a header, user plane data and integrity code, wherein a non-access stratum (NAS) security context is used for user plane data protection, and wherein a NAS layer generated integrity code is used for authentication. 
     
     
         29 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein a data payload structure for the mobile terminating connection comprises a header, user plane data and integrity code, wherein an access stratum (AS) security context is used for user plane data protection, and wherein an AS layer generated integrity code is used for authentication. 
     
     
         30 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein the mobile terminating connection is a type of connection configured for a maximum number of downlink packets and wherein the mobile terminating connection ends after the maximum number of downlink packets are received. 
     
     
         31 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein the mobile terminating connection is a type of connection configured for a maximum number of uplink packets and wherein the mobile terminating connection ends after the maximum number of uplink packets are transmitted. 
     
     
         32 . The method of  claim 21 , wherein the paging message indicates a first type of mobile terminating connection from a set of two different types of mobile terminating connections. 
     
     
         33 . The method of  claim 32 , wherein the first type of mobile terminating connection is configured to include three messages. 
     
     
         34 . The method of  claim 32 , wherein the paging message is a first message of the first type of mobile terminating connection and a second message of the first type of mobile terminating connection comprises downlink data. 
     
     
         35 . The method of  claim 34 , wherein the second message further comprises a downlink assignment for the downlink data. 
     
     
         36 . The method of  claim 31 , wherein the paging message is a first message of the first type of mobile terminating connection and a second message of the first type of mobile terminating connection comprises uplink data. 
     
     
         37 . The method of  claim 36 , wherein the second message further comprises an uplink assignment for the uplink data. 
     
     
         38 . The method of  claim 36 , wherein the second message further comprises uplink information for uplink data processing at the base station. 
     
     
         39 . The method of  claim 31 , wherein the first type of mobile terminating connection is configured to include at least four messages. 
     
     
         40 . The method of  claim 39 , wherein the paging message is a first message of the first type of mobile terminating connection and a second message of the first type of mobile terminating connection comprises initial information to be used by the network for radio resource management.